New Zealand has always been small and remote so it is necessary to show the geographic factors are time varying for remoteness to be important to the productivity drop that started in 1973
As regular readers know, I tend not to be particular upbeat about the New Zealand economic story. For anyone new, there should be a hint in the very title of the blog. If, by chance, you are still attracted to an upbeat take, only last week in a post here I critiqued a recent book chapter taking that sort of view.
And so I was a bit surprised when, more than a year ago now, I was asked to write a chapter for a forthcoming book on aspects of policymaking, and associated outcomes, in a small state (this one). In principle, the book sounded potentially interesting, and they were approaching a bunch of pretty serious and senior people to contribute. But it wasn’t clear there was much in it for me, and since the plan was for the introduction or foreword to have been written by the head of the…
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